Cops get special Whois access rights115 Law enforcement agencies will be able to get access to private Whois records in under 24 hours under ICANN policy introduced yesterday,...
Identity Digital acquires another dormant gTLD118 Identity Digital has taken over another 2012-round new gTLD that never launched. The ICANN contract for .safety recently changed hands,...
ICANN punts on Oman meeting decision124 There can be few in the ICANN community feeling confident that the Org’s annual general meeting is going to take place in Oman, a...
DNSSEC claims another registry victim132 DNSSEC is widely touted as a crucial security upgrade for the domain name system, but as so often is the case with security measures, i...
.music has competition as .mu repositions94 Identity Digital and it.com Domains are to market the Mauritius ccTLD, .mu, as an open alternative to the .music gTLD. According to it....
2026 new gTLD round has actually opened127 As of today, you can now apply to own a piece of the internet’s root zone for the first time since 2012. Almost unbelievably, giv...
Verisign cranks up guidance as .com swells123 Verisign has significantly bumped up its growth expectations for 2026, saying it expects to sell far more domains than previously thoug...
Is a .tree gTLD very cool or very silly?131 .tree is one of the first-ever publicly announced gTLD applications, predating even the 2012 application round, and it seems to have be...
Kid-friendly domains could be reborn130 With governments around the world increasingly looking at reducing the harmful effects on the internet on children, it seems child-frie...
